On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. wrote:

you have to reinstall

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

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Hi,

I recently found that my processor is capable of running 64bit OS (it has the lm flag in /proc/cpuinfo) and I am using 32bit Arch which is turn off I think. How do I convert to 64bit without the format-and-reinstall ?

-- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

Hmm that would be a tough time for me because I am on a superslow connection and have tons of stuff from AUR. Can't I switch the repo in pacman and do it ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

On Fri, 28 May 2010 08:28:55 -0500 "Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr." wrote:

you have to reinstall

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

...

Hi,

I recently found that my processor is capable of running 64bit OS (it has the lm flag in /proc/cpuinfo) and I am using 32bit Arch which is turn off I think. How do I convert to 64bit without the format-and-reinstall ?

-- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Migrating_Between_Architectures_Without_...

On Fri, 28 May 2010 16:04:50 +0200 Guillaume ALAUX wrote:

Hum... this technique looks like reinstalling to me. You don't *convert*anything but *reinstall* packages. So to my point of view you would be better off installing from scratch. Much cleaner. You will still have to download 64bits packages.

Still you can keep the list of installed packages with $(pacman -Qq) and keep some conf files before erasing the 32bit root partition.

On 28 May 2010 15:50, Hilton Medeiros wrote:

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On Fri, 28 May 2010 08:28:55 -0500 "Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr." wrote:

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you have to reinstall

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

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Hi,

I recently found that my processor is capable of running 64bit OS (it has the lm flag in /proc/cpuinfo) and I am using 32bit Arch which is turn off I think. How do I convert to 64bit without the format-and-reinstall ?

-- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Migrating_Between_Architectures_Without_...

Arch's competent Linux users should know that there is no way to magically convert i686 binaries to x86_64, right guys? I know you are just joking. ;)

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote:

Hi Nilesh, I would suggest you to stay on 32bit arch untill you are ready to migrate.

Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com

I am ready to migrate. Just I've to get a pen drive of about 4 GB to load arch64 into it, (my dvd drive sucks). -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Madhurya Kakati wrote:

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote:

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Hi Nilesh, I would suggest you to stay on 32bit arch untill you are ready to migrate.

Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com

^+1 you wont get much performance improvements by using a 64 bit os. but if u have 4gb or more ram then u should use 64 bit to fully utilize it.

I have 1gb RAM. Can you give an approximate % increase in performance if I switch to 64 ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

On 05/28/2010 11:47 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote:

5-10% that too if you compile lots of stuff. otherwise for browsing and all no noticeable increase.

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote

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I have 1gb RAM. Can you give an approximate % increase in performance if I switch to 64 ?

-- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

Please do not top post. By this, we mean that if you are replying to a message, please put your replies after the text that you copy in your reply. A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/mailing-list-faq/etiquette.html

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Hilton Medeiros wrote:

On Fri, 28 May 2010 16:04:50 +0200 Guillaume ALAUX wrote:

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Hum... this technique looks like reinstalling to me. You don't *convert*anything but *reinstall* packages. So to my point of view you would be better off installing from scratch. Much cleaner. You will still have to download 64bits packages.

Still you can keep the list of installed packages with $(pacman -Qq) and keep some conf files before erasing the 32bit root partition.

On 28 May 2010 15:50, Hilton Medeiros wrote:

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On Fri, 28 May 2010 08:28:55 -0500 "Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr." wrote:

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you have to reinstall

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

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Hi,

I recently found that my processor is capable of running 64bit OS (it has the lm flag in /proc/cpuinfo) and I am using 32bit Arch which is turn off I think. How do I convert to 64bit without the format-and-reinstall ?

-- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Migrating_Between_Architectures_Without_...

Arch's competent Linux users should know that there is no way to magically convert i686 binaries to x86_64, right guys? I know you are just joking. ;)

No I didn't know that really. If I'm an arch user should that imply that I know anything and everything about Linux LOL ? Its like, if you're a cook, then it implies that you can make any sort of food, be it american, european, asian, etc. ?!?! -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com